Giorgio Vasari: 29 books

Beginning with Cimabue and Giotto in the thirteenth century, Vasari traces the development of Italian art across three centuries to the golden epoch of Leonardo and Michelangelo. Great men, and their immortal works, are brought vividly to life, as Vasari depicts the young Giotto scratching his first...

36 illustrations, some color, some black-and-white. Volume 7 of Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Scultptors and Architects According to Wikipedia: "Giorgio Vasari (30 July 1511 27 June 1574) was an Italian painter, architect, writer and historian, most famous today for his Lives of the Most...

64 illustrations, some color, some black-and-white. Volume 9 of Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Scultptors and Architects According to Wikipedia: "Giorgio Vasari (30 July 1511 27 June 1574) was an Italian painter, architect, writer and historian, most famous today for his Lives of the Most...

74 illustrations, some color, some black-and-white. Volume 4 of Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Scultptors and Architects According to Wikipedia: "Giorgio Vasari (30 July 1511 27 June 1574) was an Italian painter, architect, writer and historian, most famous today for his Lives of the Most...

61 illustrations, some color, some black-and-white. Volume 2 of Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Scultptors and Architects According to Wikipedia: "Giorgio Vasari (30 July 1511 27 June 1574) was an Italian painter, architect, writer and historian, most famous today for his Lives of the Most...

69 illustrations, some color, some black-and-white. Volume 3 of Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Scultptors and Architects According to Wikipedia: "Giorgio Vasari (30 July 1511 27 June 1574) was an Italian painter, architect, writer and historian, most famous today for his Lives of the Most...

60 illustrations, some color, some black-and-white. Volume 5 of Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Scultptors and Architects According to Wikipedia: "Giorgio Vasari (30 July 1511 27 June 1574) was an Italian painter, architect, writer and historian, most famous today for his Lives of the Most...

22 illustrations, some color, some black-and-white. Volume 6 of Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Scultptors and Architects According to Wikipedia: "Giorgio Vasari (30 July 1511 27 June 1574) was an Italian painter, architect, writer and historian, most famous today for his Lives of the Most...

35 illustrations, some color, some black-and-white. Volume 8 of Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Scultptors and Architects According to Wikipedia: "Giorgio Vasari (30 July 1511 27 June 1574) was an Italian painter, architect, writer and historian, most famous today for his Lives of the Most...

Aretino d'origine, Giorgio Vasari è stato pittore e architetto nonché uno dei più importanti storici dell'arte nell'Italia del 1500. Il suo trattato Le Vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori e architettori italiani, da Cimabue insino a' tempi nostri, pubblicato nel 1550 e riedito con aggiunte...

È il primo libro organico di storia dell'arte che ci sia pervenuto, nonché la fonte, spesso unica, di notizie biografiche degli artisti a cavallo tra Medioevo e Rinascimento, nonché di informazioni su opere d'arte poi disperse, perdute o distrutte. Appassionato e meticoloso, Vasari peccò...

Aretino d'origine, Vasari è stato pittore e architetto, nonché uno dei più importanti storici dell'arte della Toscana e dell'Italia del Cinquecento. Il suo trattato delle Vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori e architettori italiani, da Cimabue insino a' tempi nostri, pubblicato nel 1550 e...

I termini di umanesimo e rinascimento chiarificano un periodo straordinario della vicenda civilizzatrice occidentale che nasce dal cuore stesso del mondo comunale, dal sentimento d'irresistibile compenetrazione col modello dell'antichità classica – oltre la sterile imitazione – che si muove...